Elizabeth_C._Stanton

Elizabeth C. Stanton Elizabeth Stanton’s writing, I might say, is quite interesting and intriguing. As a woman, I can understand her decision to fight for the rights of women. I believe that all should have equal rights regardless of your gender. By not doing so, in my opinion, would be no different than any other form of discrimination. In this day and age, it is said that we live in the land of the free. If this were true then why are there so many injustices' In so many other countries women are constantly being set aside from many advantages because of their gender. For instance, in China, if your first born child is not a male it’s likely that it will not survive. On the same token if you have more than one child there is a great possibility that you will be ordered to pay a fine. They say that doing this is a measure to control its population but then why allow non-citizens to then move there to live' Wouldn’t that add to the very same population they are trying to control' Just as in India and other countries women are not allowed to do anything without the consent of their husbands. For instance, they are not allowed to sit in the front seat of a vehicle but rather in the back. But yet the men have the freedom to do just about anything, including the luxury of having more than one wife. Elizabeth Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution in an attempt to convince the men of that era that we, as women, should be treated as equal to men by having the same rights as them by being allowed to vote and have our voices heard. Her book was used to mainly attract readers in order to make her purpose known. As such, also trying to explain that we hold these truths to be self-evident in which all men and women are created equal by our creator. Her method shows that her purpose is very clear. So clear that she takes the time to show how wrongly men of this very same time had treated women and gave different examples of what should be done to resolve this inequality. One of them was by noting that women should have the right to vote and have high ranking powers, just as men, within the government. By going to the extremities of her examples she had shown how important it was to create balance between genders and how women could be just as powerful and efficient as men were.